The partition where the database lives is FAT32 -- it needs to be because it is also visible from my Linux dual-boot. I know permissions on a FAT32 volume are, at best, faked. But IMHO it shouldn't incur this sort of error.
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Running in debug mode.
initdb: internal variables: PGDATA=/var/database/pgsql datadir=/usr/share/postgresql PGPATH=/usr/bin ENCODING=UTF-8 ENCODINGID=6 POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=postgres POSTGRES_BKI=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.bki POSTGRES_DESCR=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.description POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sample PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_ident.conf.sample The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. fixing permissions on existing directory /var/database/pgsql... chmod: changing permissions of `/var/database/pgsql': Bad file descriptor initdb: failed total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres None 0 Aug 5 11:27 Debian_Packages drwxr-xr-x 5 postgres None 0 Aug 25 13:25 Marathon drwxr-xr-x 3 postgres None 0 Aug 25 11:22 Zeos drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres None 0 Aug 25 22:24 pgsql
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